HBO's eight-part monthly series recalls the places, the people and the events relevant to eight major strands in America's cultural and social fabric -- cowboys, radio, transportation, sex, journalism, sports, inventions and advertising -- via newsreel clips, period music, theatrical movie sequences, and on-location shootings. Host Dick Cavett steps in and out of historic scenes in this follow-up to his earlier HBO series entitled Time Was.
Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has ...
Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our...
When the United States of America was founded, the ideals of freedom and equality did not apply to a...
Join Dave Stotts on an adventure through early American history as he tells the stories of the peopl...
Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominen...
The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
A panoramic overview of the events and people that shaped six of the most important years in America...
Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J....
What does the Ground Zero flag from 9/11 have in common with the original Wright Brothers flying mac...
An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls b...
Examines six moments when the collision and collusions of Washington, Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson,...
Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connecte...
This five-part series traces the story of Asian Americans, spanning 150 years of immigration, racial...
From the 1920s through the 1960s, America transformed from a young country on the rise into a global...
John Green teaches you the history of the United States of America in 47 episodes!
Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride to warn colonial forces of the ...
Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before b...